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Seems a bit of a lesson, not in avoiding organic farming per se, but rather in avoiding a situation where your economy is entirely dependent on imports in a key

Seems a bit of a lesson, not in avoiding organic farming per se, but rather in avoiding a situation where your economy is entirely dependent on imports in a key sector. Also, tourism revenue may be nice, but it is not dependable; I recall Bali having trouble when an act of terrorism caused tourism to crater for a few years. Abrupt transition to a different agricultural system (organic or otherwise) does surely seem risky, but the talking points here remind me of the folks who said that Texas power blackouts last year were because we had too much wind and solar. It's a slice of truth, served up with a whole lot of lack of context to slant towards the desired conclusion.

eesmith 4y ago
> remind me of the folks who said that Texas power blackouts last year were because we had too much wind and solar. It's a slice of truth Is it really a slice of truth, or a convenient lie? Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis : "State officials including Republican governor Greg Abbott[13] initially blamed[14] the outages on frozen wind turbines and solar panels. However, data showed that failure to winterize power sources, primarily those of natural gas, had caused the grid failure" citing, among others, "Republicans use Texas power outages to spread false claims about green energy" at https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republicans-texas-power-outages-spread-false-claims-green/story?id=75947664 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republicans-texas-power-outa...